World class with distinction

2014 was a tough year for the ultimate boy band that capture the hearts until the girlies and since her comeback 2006 Pop nostalgics since 1992. The loss of an original member is the starting point of doom for almost every band. But Take That seem to contradict the unwritten rules for boy bands in all facets. Not only play all the remaining members of instruments or write their own songs, but also the loss of members is put away - without resorting to awkward replacement musicians. No one would have believed in 2006 that the comeback of Take That would become the largest musical comeback that at least the UK has ever seen. Over 10 million selling albums speak for themselves and made Take That before Coldplay, Oasis, Adele, Dido and James Blunt's most successful selling in England artists of the past 10 years.

Also in 2014 Take That have come with a fixed target. The goal is of course again to produce unique pop music and to rock the charts eurpäischen and tour arenas. And that they will once again create. Musically III similar to the first comeback album of 2006. Pop / Rock Britpop or with harmonious melodies, failed productions and captivating vocals, of which Gary Barlow again takes over the majority. While there are on III also one or the other song that is reminiscent of Progress, but mostly they have been adopted by the electric wave again - luckily. Amazon UK reported recently that III the most pre-ordered album-has become in the local Amazon history. Such signs like you do not believe that the music industry is actually still in ruins and ashes. Apparently another rule, the Take That brave obstinate.

Absolute face-tips are in my opinion:

Portrait: A Britpop ballad First cream with a rousing chorus and a melancholic touch, which only the harmonic reduction of Gary Barlow's voice can do justice.

Higher Than Higher: Remember the e-guitar riff, which is impressively staged and supported by pulsating drums, Michael Jackson's mega hit Human Nature. The echo effect on the chorus roars by and tears with, retro, the measure of all things.

Give You My Love: The only Howard Donald sung track but uses again the Jackson repertoire, this time Janet Jackson Someone to Call My Lover. The electro-funk number is not only a successful - perhaps even much better continuation of the idea of ​​Progress, but also so removed from what one would expect that one can only congratulate to so much creativity. Bass in combination with the guitar riff show how much musicality in the group is still after more than 20 years.

Freeze: Sets this impression continued without restriction. The pop ballad features a piano riff, all musters in the chorus and "Climax", which should make a pop ballad: Stadium Quality. A song that can capture difficult. Almost gospel-esque it might work as a Christmas single.

Amazing: Ironically, decried as Beatles 1990s, this song sounds like a Beatles-copy. Here probably has Gary incorporate the sound of his current solo album "Since I Saw You Last". The number really takes the biscuit from the ground. Better it is hardly.

Do It All For Love: That it gets even better, proves the sung by Mark Owen stadium anthem Do It All For Love. This is certainly one of the best songs that have Take That ever recorded. As once in Never Forget calls the song not to on, get out the lighters but sing of her lungs, notably in the chorus - even if there are not necessarily words in the "pre-chorus" that applies to sing it, but an epic "Ah". The drum and beat production also strongly reminiscent of "Wonderful Life" by Hurts. Retro Greetings.

Conclusion: Even with third Take That are not mediocre, but unique. The perfect pop album of perfect (Boy-) band of the year. A potpourri of familiar and the new. Absolutely worth hearing.